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Novitiate is a beguiling movie that requires a thorough examination of your own conscience and connection to religion. Rated: 3.5/5 • Nov 20, 2017. What ultimately saves Novitiate from its...
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Novitiate, the feature-length debut of Sundance Film Festival's Breakthrough Director winner, Maggie Betts, is a stylish and ambitious take on a historical moment in the transformation of...
Oct 26, 2017 · Shot through with grit and grace, Novitiate is a potent provocation. It’s also something special. 'Novitiate' explores the agony and the ecstasy of young women pledging themselves to the Lord...
Oct 27, 2017 · “Novitiate” explores what happens when the girls’ natural sexual urges begin to bubble up—for men they’ve not yet met, for each other, for God Himself—and how they clash with the inherent chastity of their calling.
Novitiate: Directed by Maggie Betts. With Melissa Leo, Lisa Stewart, Alyssa Brindley, Chelsea Lopez. Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
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Oct 24, 2017 · Is faith escapism or an act of surrender? In grappling with the essence of spirituality, Novitiate—not unlike Martin Scorsese’s Silence—asks more questions than it supplies answers.
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Nov 15, 2017 · “Novitiate” is a fascinating, unblinking yet respectful look at a time and place — a women’s community where a visiting archbishop (Denis O’Hare) can act like he owns the place. And in Leo, it...
